Last Call For Bunker Mentality

After last week's debt ceiling fold, the House GOP has hunkered down and turned out the lights on passing anything.  Robert Costa:

After a tumultuous week of party infighting and leadership stumbles, congressional Republicans are now focused on calming their divided ranks in the months ahead, mostly by touting proposals that have wide backing within the GOP and shelving any big-ticket legislation for the rest of the year.

Comprehensive immigration reform, tax reform, tweaks to the federal health-care law — bipartisan deals on each are probably dead in the water for the rest of this Congress.

“We don’t have 218 votes in the House for the big issues, so what else are we going to do?” said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), an ally of House Speaker John A. Boehner. “We can do a few things on immigration and work on our principles, but in terms of real legislating, we’re unable to get in a good negotiating position.”

Added Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster who works closely with party leaders: “It is an acknowledgment of where they stand, where nothing can happen in divided government so we may essentially have the status quo. Significant immigration reform and fundamental tax reform are probably not going to happen.”

Surprise!  Back to permanent obstruction and blaming Obama.  Sure worked in 2012, didn't it?

“It’s over, it’s finished after the debt ceiling,” Nunes said. “In the House, we’ve got 30 guys who don’t want to support anything, ever, unless it balances the budget next year.”

So you're going to vote for the guys that will do nothing for America in 2014.  OK.

Always The Victim

Everything you need to know about CNN's Chris Cuomo and his interview with Trayvon Martin killer George Zimmerman is summed up in this exchange:

Cuomo: What was the miscarriage of justice?

Zimmerman: The fact that two law enforcement entities stated that I had acted within the laws of our nation, in self defense.

Cuomo: You don't think it was about the law?

Zimmerman: I know it wasn’t, yes.

Cuomo: And what does that make you? How do you, how does that make you feel?

Zimmerman: Like a scapegoat.

Cuomo: A scapegoat for?

Zimmerman: The government, the President, the attorney general.

He will claim he is the victim until the end of time.  It's all Obama's fault.  It's all Eric Holder's fault.  They made him shoot and kill Trayvon Martin, you see.

It's always Obama's fault with these guys.

Karl Rove Is Still Wrong About Everything

Karl Rove is convinced that Democrats are afraid of Chris Christie.

Democrats are raising a fuss about the closure of the George Washington Bridge because they are afraid of Gov. Chris Christie's (R) chances in 2016, according to former President George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove.

“The reason the Democrats are doing this is because Gov. Christie is a strong potential candidate in 2016 and they’re going to try to smother every Republican presidential possibility they can,” Rove said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“They know that this race in 2016 is going to be difficult for the Democrats, hard to get a third term, particularly after the two terms of Obama.”

Meanwhile, Rand Paul and Mitt Romney keep going on teevee bringing up Monica Lewinsky.  You know, because the economy was so awful when Clinton was President, especially compared to the mess Bush made of it and that Obama's still trying to dig out of with no help from the GOP.

Seems like it's the GOP who is afraid if the best they have is stuff from 15 years ago on Big Dog.  They've got no plan for the economy, no plan for tackling climate change or immigration, no plan for anything other than "We hate Obama, so we'll hate Clinton too."

Scared kids.

StupidiNews!

• The co-pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines flight bound for Rome hijacked the plane and flew to Geneva seeking asylum, where he was arrested without further incident.
• UN investigators are referring North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to the International Criminal Court for a possible war crimes tribunal.
• Ukrainian opposition leaders are pushing President Viktor Yanukovich to accept limits on powers in exchange for defusing the 3-month long series of protest that have the country at the brink.
• EU leaders will need more time to decide on carbon emissions targets for 2030 as a final decision next month is now expected to be postponed.
• Australian police are testing laser grid mapping at crime scenes in order to get more accurate analysis of locations, the type of laser measurements used at cultural monuments.